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The last thing you want to do when it comes to your own home network is to leave it unprotected. Not only it will make it easy for other people to use your internet connection without your consent, but they will have the chance to get access to your personal files, login details, and other sensitive data you would never want to share.

These are the reasons why would you want to secure your wireless home network and one of the first thing would be to change your Xfinity or Comcast Wi-Fi name and password.

How to Change Your Xfinity or Comcast Wi-Fi Name

The login process is already explained in this article but here is a brief summary of the login procedure.

If nothing happens or you see an error message check whether 10.0.0.1 is indeed your router default IP address.

When the login page appears type the default username and password. It’s usually admin for the username, and password for the password.

Username: admin

Password: password

When you finally login to the router admin tool web page, it’s time to locate the page where you can change the Wi-Fi name.

After you login to the router go to Gateway and select Connection and choose Wi-Fi.

Click on the Edit button.

Enter a new Network name and Password and don’t forget to save the settings.

After you click the SAVE button it is important to write down the new Wi-Fi password because you’ll have to update the wireless password for all the devices currently connected to your wireless home network.

Conclusion

As you can see, changing the default Xfinity or Comcast Wi-Fi Name and Password is not difficult at all. However, after you change these default settings, you will drastically increase the overall security of your wireless home network. In this case the saying “Better safe than sorry” comes to its full meaning.

Protecting your wireless network is one of the first steps you have to take in order to stop other people using your Internet connection, altering your network settings, or even worse stealing your private information and files.

All the necessary steps for securing the wireless network can be performed from the Admin Tool. Since the wireless gateway comes with a default username and password, the first step you have to take is to change the Admin Tool password. However, before we continue we have to make clear that the Admin Tool password and the Wireless Password are not the same. Changing the Wireless network password will be covered in another article.

When the Admin Tool login window opens type admin as username and password as password. These are default login details and in the following part we are changing the password.

Click the LOGIN button.

Step 2 – Changing the Admin Tool password

In the new window look at the top-right corner of your screen and click the Change password.

Step 3 – Setting up a new password

First enter your Current password and then enter and re-enter your new password. For better security make sure to type at least 8-characters long password combining both uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. If the system allows, you can also add some special characters which will boost the strength of your password. Make sure to write down the new password somewhere safe.

Click the SAVE button and login again.

As you can see it was quite easy to change the Admin Tool password and it is recommended to do this and the other wireless network security steps as soon as possible. It is also good to change the Admin tool password from time to time.

The 10.0.0.1 login IP is one of the several wireless router default IP addresses used today. Probably the most popular wireless router using this IP is the Comcast Xfinity router.

If you are one of the Comcast’s valuable customers it is always good to know the default IP just in case you want to do some networking tasks on your own. Disabling and enabling wireless internet, modifying your network name, securing your wireless network are just some of the things you can do once you log in to the router’s Admin Tool.

The 10.0.0.1 Login Steps

First of all we have to make some things clear for the 10.0.0.1 login process to succeed.

You have to be connected to your network, otherwise it won’t work. It doesn’t matter whether it is a wired or wireless connection, but in case it is a wireless connection you will be logged out when you change the wireless password and click “Save”. Making other changes and saving them may have the same result so it is good to know what’s happening.

Make sure to type 10.0.0.1 and not 1o.o.o.1 (type the number ZERO instead of the letter O)

Step 1.

Start up your browser and in the address bar type 10.0.0.1 or http://10.0.0.1

Adding http:// in front of the IP address is not necessary because your browser automatically adds it.

Step 2.

If the 10.0.0.1 login IP is the correct one, the Admin Tool Login window will appear.

Step 3.

The Comcast Xfinity router uses the following default login details:

Username: admin

Password: password

CAUTION: Both the username and password are case sensitive.

Now you should be logged in to the Admin Tool. In case these login details don’t work you will have to reset your router to factory settings.

Conclusion

As you can see, the 10.0.0.1 login process is quite simple and easy. Now when you have gained access to the router’s Admin Tool you can make the following changes.

All the things you can do with your router will be described in details in some other articles. For now, if you have logged in to your router’s Admin Tool successfully, it would be best to write the following:

Make sure to have these written somewhere, just in case you need them.